View Full Version : Be afraid... be very afraid. Or not.
ManekiNeko
10-18-2003, 12:25 PM
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P63794.asp
According to this report, video games can be used to help people control their fears of everything from spiders to heights. I suppose the games give the patients a safe environment in which to confront their fears, and even allow them to turn the tables on what terrifies them the most.
JR
AB Positive
10-18-2003, 12:32 PM
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I wouldn't mind losing my stupid fear of storms...
-AG
Darth Sensei
10-18-2003, 12:35 PM
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I wouldn't mind losing my stupid fear of storms...
-AG
Didn't your mom ever tell you about the story of God bowling? When thunder comes, God got a strike. :D
evilmess
10-18-2003, 02:18 PM
Video games haven't helped my fear of heights. O_O
I have acrophobia and on a few rare occassions I've played some 3D games that give me the willies when I'm really high up on a ledge of something similar.
So video gaming hasn't helped my fears.
And don't get me started on lightning. I will crawl in a hole during a lightning storm!
But it sounds like a unique therapy and it paints video games in a positive light which is nice for our hobby 8-)
Sotenga
10-18-2003, 02:19 PM
Video games actually add to my nightmares... hmm... :hmm:
Jorpho
10-18-2003, 04:08 PM
Gee, I thought the lawyers and the fundamentalists had been going on for years now about how video games helped eliminate fear of incarceration, authority, and inflicting bodily harm on others. Or not.
Ed Oscuro
10-18-2003, 10:37 PM
Hah. Finding myself leaning dangerously close to saying video games promote violence AND pursuing the legal profession LOL
Phosphor Dot Fossils
10-18-2003, 11:02 PM
I wouldn't mind losing my stupid fear of storms...
You'd never make it in this neck of the woods, meladdo.
I can't say I've ever had a game-induced nightmare myself.
Ed Oscuro
10-18-2003, 11:18 PM
I have some wierd dreams...a recent one was actually game related, funny one too. gotta make a topic for that one someday.
Chunky
10-18-2003, 11:31 PM
I still won't touch or eat mushrooms.
Queen Of The Felines
10-19-2003, 10:52 AM
I still get extremely freaked out over Resident Evil's giant spiders, especially in the second one when you're in the sewer and it's sitting on the wall directly in front of the camera, but the light's dim so you can just see a vague outline...until it twitches a bit. :eek 2:
Heights in a game bug me too...I literally became dizzy after climbing to the top of the snowman in Banjo-Kazooie.
Don't even get me started on Disaster Report.
Kristine
atomicthumbs
10-19-2003, 07:24 PM
Video games just add to my fears of zombies. I've lay in bed some nights after playing Resident Evil or watching zombie movies, with these scenarios running through my head. It's all like, what would I do if zombies invaded my town? Would I kill myself, hide, try to escape and how?
It messes me up! Tomb Raider II didn't help either when it came to my fear of sharks!